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IDP— An interactive discourse planner

  • University of Wisconsin-Parkside

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Abstract

We are building a system that plans text to describe and justify domain plans interactively. This paper focuses on the second task, plan justification. A speaker uses plan justification to have a listener adopt a recommended plan. The text plan that our system incrementally formulates and executes to justify its recommendation is represented uniformly in the same knowledge base with the domain plans that are under discussion. In this way, the text plan and the domain plans are both accessible for analyzing the listener's feedback. The system can interpret vaguely articulated questions, generate concise replies and metacomments, and detect feedback that initiates digressions. As a testbed for our model, we are implementing a system that gives driving directions and route advice interactively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTrends in Natural Language Generation
Subtitle of host publicationAn Artificial Intelligence Perspective - Fourth European Workshop, EWNLG 1993, Selected Papers
EditorsGiovanni Adorni, Giovanni Adorni, Michael Zock, Michael Zock
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages144-167
Number of pages24
ISBN (Print)3540608001, 3540608001, 9783540608004, 9783540608004
DOIs
StatePublished - 1996
Event4th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, EWNLG 1993 - Pisa, Italy
Duration: Apr 28 1993Apr 30 1993

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1036
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, EWNLG 1993
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityPisa
Period04/28/9304/30/93

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